A police manhunt was mounted over the weekend after a young mother left Faro hospital two hours after giving birth to a son she feared would be taken into care by Social Services.
According to friends of 28-year-old Alexandra Patrício she had vowed that she would not let social workers “take another child”.
Beachgoers at Poço da Cruz, Mira, watched in horror yesterday afternoon as a microlight started to drop altitude rapidly and then swerve to avoid them, before crashing onto the sands.
Experienced 48-year-old pilot Fernando Jerónimo, on holiday from France, “died trying to avoid the many people on the beach”, Portuguese media has reported.
Almost exactly a year since the catastrophic collapse of Banco Espírito Santo and his indictment relating to the Monte Branco money-laundering scandal, former BES boss Ricardo Salgado returned to Lisbon’s central court of criminal instruction (TIC) to face a 13-hour grilling.
He left the exhaustive day of questioning as an “arguido” (formal suspect) placed under house arrest with a round-the-clock police guard.
A new email address (defesanimal@psp.pt) has been launched by Lisbon PSP police offering citizens an easy way to report cases of animal abuse and abandonment. The 21POLICIA telephone line (217 654 242) is already available for this purpose.
The moves are all part of a new campaign entitled ‘Maus tratos a animais são crime’ (Mistreating animals is a crime).
A new financial ‘scandal’ has been presented today in Público, alleging that the Bank of Portugal (BdP) has called in the public ministry over “suspect money-laundering operations” at CEMG - Caixa Económico Montepio Geral, better known as Montepio Bank.
At issue are “failures in the control mechanisms” that suggest “crimes of money-laundering and the financing of terrorism”, writes the paper - adding that the transactions in question all originated within Finibanco Angola, 61% owned by the Montepio Geral association.
Another horrific case of family violence has left one woman dead and her six-year-old son fighting for his life at Porto’s São João Hospital. They are believed to have been shot by 54-year-old António Reis, the woman’s partner and father of the child. He was arrested hours after the crime by PSP police and is now being held in custody.
The shooting happened at around 9pm on Thursday night (July 23), when Marinha Santos, 42, and her son were getting out of her car in the neighbourhood of Saibreiras in Ermesinde, a town near Porto.
Police investigating the discovery of the body of missing Portuguese student Diogo Moreira near Brighton railway station have admitted that they have no idea at the moment how the 29-year-old died.
They are not even sure if his body had been lying at the foot of the ravine where it was found on Wednesday evening for all the time Diogo had been missing - as it still seems extraordinary that with so many people searching for clues for so many days, a body could have gone unnoticed.
The body of a Brazilian man was found last night (July 23) in Lisbon’s Monsanto park, a source from PSP police told Lusa news agency.
Police say the man was around 50-years-old. The state of his body suggests it had lain unnoticed in the park for a few days. It was found by one of the park’s rangers near Bairro da Boavista in the area of Pina Manique.
With the cause of death for now unknown, the case has been handed over to PJ criminal police.
Article courtesy of the Portugal Resident http://portugalresident.com/
